Word: relayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raises two questions. First, are we weakening the signals on which the invisible hand of capitalism relies? How many layers of decision makers are there between my decision to save a dollar and someone else's decision to put that dollar to practical use? Each layer is like a relay station along an old, predigital telephone line: it propels the message but also slightly distorts it. Cumulatively, the small distortions can add up to a lot of noise in the system...
News groups, it is true, are not the only medium by which one can access pornography, but they are the most popular. There is a lot of phone sex-type conversation on Internet Relay Chat (IRC), but IRC only accounts for 1.417 percent of the traffic ever the Internet...
Parents and friends, desperate to reach first-years, have sometimes tried to call other rooms to relay messages...
...thought and language. Last week researchers writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences presented evidence that may pinpoint a spot in the cortex where dyslexia originates. It is an area of tissue called the medial geniculate nucleus (MGN), which affects hearing by acting as a relay station for auditory signals...
...secret file server and loaded it with thousands of dollars' worth of stolen software - like Power Japanese (retail: $395) and the unreleased game Alien Legacy - the L.A. Times found. But if these pirate locations are so secret, how do Net users ever find them? Through Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels that span the Net and elude all but the most determined federal investigators...